Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

The pace of additions should be concerning to anyone who cares about personalized learning and/or student data privacy. Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye this week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. What then of the students?

EdTech 150

EdTech OER E-rate Microsoft 150

Lightspeed Systems

AUGUST 25, 2023

Lightspeed’s Engagement & Impact solution provides Fayette County with a comprehensive, easy-to-use solution that ensures student data privacy, empowers teachers to manage devices within the classroom, and enables smart and informed edtech decision making. Lightspeed Digital Insight has paid for itself.

EdTech 52

EdTech Data Student Data Privacy Chromebook 52

Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

More students than ever before now have access to a quality education, no matter where they live. Lesson plans can be tailored to meet the learning needs of individual students. At the postsecondary level, more than 15% of students were enrolled exclusively online in 2017. took at least one online course.

Learning 254

Learning Student Data Privacy Data Software 254

Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2017

Tools and Courses WHO’S USING WHAT? New edtech accountability tool CatchOn launched on Tuesday. The tool is currently available on Chromebooks, but the company promises an iOS version soon. The company’s President and CEO, David Levin, says that the tool is currently available outside of the U.S. at a later date.

Tools 65

Tools Student Data Privacy Data Policies 65

Edsurge

JUNE 23, 2020

They were looking to license their tools, or acquire them, or simply see what new ideas startups were coming up with,” says Karen Billings, who ran SIIA’s education technology division from 2002 to 2016. There were no vendor halls where salespeople demoed their tools. All the big companies wanted to find out who the new ones were.

Industry 126

Industry Conference EdTech Student Data Privacy 126

Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In discussions among educators and entrepreneurs about the importance of student data privacy, issues of information technology security risks and threats are often glossed over. While data breaches and technology vulnerabilities from companies such as. This is the end of the innocence.

Student Data Privacy 73

Student Data Privacy Data Policies Software 73

Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2020

The company in the interim is led by Charles Goodman, an operating partner at Thoma Bravo and former CEO of Thoma Bravo portfolio company Frontline Education, which provides administrative tools to more than 12,000 educational institutions. The company is also on the search for a new CFO. Goodman will only lead the company temporarily.

LMS 89

LMS Blackboard Company Moodle 89

Edsurge

MAY 9, 2018

For guidance on these and other matters, her district works with the California Student Privacy Alliance and their student data privacy agreement, a template document districts can use as a contract with providers. tools teachers want to use in their classrooms. If it’s free, hey use it.”

Student Data Privacy 71

Student Data Privacy Policies Data EdTech 71

Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2016

2017 is shaping up to be a big year of what-if’s. Do they opens the door for companies to take the lead on how students learn and how their data is used? Like most education technologies, institutions using predictive tools will have to find the happy medium between embracing innovation and letting evidence lead the way.

EdTech 60

EdTech Student Data Privacy MOOC Policies 60

edWeb.net

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Do you know where your data is stored? With the increased emphasis on student data privacy, many school leaders might think they have a handle on cyber security. CoSN provides thought leadership resources, community, best practices and advocacy tools to help leaders succeed in the digital transformation.

Strategy 53

Strategy Student Data Privacy Data Policies 53

Tech Helpful

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Mentor students in safe, legal, and ethical practices with digital tools ad the protection of intellectual rights and property. Model and promote management of personal data and digital identity and protect student data privacy. Protect student data privacy. I do the same every day.

Digital Citizenship 44

Digital Citizenship Education Student Data Privacy Social Media 44

eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The district also holds several events inviting staff to learn about technology tools and strategies for the classroom. Furthermore, due to remote learning, Alvarez turned to the technology solution to equip educators with insights and tools to personalize and accelerate learning at-home and in the classroom.

Education 119

Education Learning EdTech Data 119

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. In 2017, just a week before Christmas, the New Media Consortium abruptly announced its immediate closure “because of apparent errors and omissions by its former Controller and Chief Financial Officer.” Good for you. But that’s not my job.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

” Via Inside Higher Ed : “Department of Education data indicate zero borrowers are on pace to qualify for Public Service Loan Forgiveness by 2017, a prominent higher ed group warned the department in a letter last month.” ” The group in question: National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators.

Education 40

Education Pearson Common Core Report 40

Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

Via Education Week : “ Mississippi Attorney General Sues Google Over Student-Data Privacy.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon , written by Kelly Barnhill, is the 2017 Newbery Medal winner. Via Gizmodo : “ Peter Thiel Gains New Zealand Citizenship as Tech Elites Prep for Doomsday.”

Education 40

Education Coursera Robotics E-rate 40